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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2024 iii Paper 124 2 i Solution by
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A decision problem is NL-complete when and every language has a deterministic logarithmic space many-one reduction to .
The directed graph reachability problem is the standard example. It lies in NL because a machine stores the current vertex and a counter, nondeterministically guesses at most successive edges, and accepts upon reaching ; this uses space. For hardness, given an NL machine and input , construct its configuration graph. Its configurations have logarithmic length, adjacency can be computed in logarithmic space, andAdding one target joined from every accepting configuration gives the required logarithmic-space reduction.
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